Murat Cem Menguc (Seton Hall): AKP's Religious Conservatism vs. Neo-Liberalism: A Divide That Doesn’t Exist. Kaya Genc on the political color wheel: In Turkey, different colors have long been associated with particular beliefs — most recently, a rainbow coalition has spread across the country. Halil Karaveli on Turkey: A capitalist history. Piotr Zalewski on Istanbul's Big Dig: Is there a dark side to Turkey's glittering array of multi-billion-dollar massive infrastructure projects? Andrew Arato on ten theses on constitutional change in Turkey. Richard Falk on two forms of lethal polarization: Egypt and Turkey. Smells like Gezi spirit: Meyda Yegenoglu on democratic sensibilities and carnivalesque politics in Turkey. Christopher de Bellaigue on Turkey: “Surreal, menacing, pompous”. An imperfect model: Kemal Kirisci on how a high-profile corruption scandal has aggravated the growing instability in Turkey. At the center of Turkey's corruption scandal is a "gas for gold" scheme that the Obama administration dragged its feet on stopping. Brent E. Sasley on how Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has reshaped Turkish politics, and what it means for current corruption scandal. Will Turkey's Erdogan cause his own downfall? Dexter Filkins investigates. Suzy Hansen goes inside the movement of Fetullah Gulen, a guy who lives in Pennsylvania qho may be taking down the entire Turkish government. With a combination of the kitsch of Eurovision and the lofty sentiments of pan-Turkic brotherhood, the Turkic-speaking world’s first international song contest, Turkvision, made its debut.

Steven W. Bender (Seattle): Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S. Mexico-Border Crossings. Kevin R. Johnson (UC-Davis): The Beginning of the End: The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Emergence of Modern U.S./Mexico Border Enforcement. David Kortava interviews David Neiwert, author of And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border. Cesar Diaz on the effects of the Rio Grande Valley on a scholarship boy. Zalfa Feghali reviewsWhy Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide by Michael Dear. Brad Plumer on how Mexico is upending the U.S. auto industry. Greg Grandin on history’s sinkhole: How did the US-Mexican border become the place where the American past chokes on itself? Noam Chomsky on how the U.S.-Mexico border is cruel by design. Stefan Falke’s ongoing project, La Frontera: Artists from the U.S. Mexican Border, examines the borderland’s flourishing arts communities with photographs of more than 170 painters, muralists, art promoters, museum directors and musicians. Mohammed Elnaiem on neo-liberal performativity of the US-Mexico border. Another benefit of immigrant workers — shock absorption: In continuing to address the chicken-and-egg question of jobs and population, it seems that Mexican-born workers are quick to relocate to greener pastures. The first chapter from When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands by Shaylih Muehlmann. The Deported: John Stanton on life on the wrong side of the border. Alexei Anisin reviewsTwo Nations Indivisible: Mexico, The United States and the Road Ahead by Shannon K. O’Neil (and more).